Democrats Score Biggest Wins Since Trump Returned as 2026 Looms

Democrats registered their biggest political victories since their stinging loss to Donald Trump a year ago with a series of wins Tuesday night in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and California, as the party coalesced around a message of economic affordability and voters delivered a repudiation of the president.

Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia both campaigned for governor on pocketbook issues — lowering costs, expanding child care and restoring stability after months of economic turbulence and a government shutdown that’s stretched past five weeks.

Zohran Mamdani at an election night event in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg

In New York City, Zohran Mamdani, a progressive Democrat ...